An Introducion to Project for the New American Century Project for the New American Century [PNAC] is a neo-conservative think tank with strong ties to the their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy.” Several original PNAC members, behind such a conflict. The names of every prominent PNAC member were on a letter delivered to American Enterprise Institute. PNAC’s web site says it was “established in the spring of 1997” as “a non- including Cheney, Khalilzad and the Bush family, have ties to the oil industry. Many other members President Clinton in 1998 which castigated him for not implementing the Act by driving troops into profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership. The Project is have been long-time fixtures in the U.S. military establishment or Cold War “strategic studies,” Baghdad. PNAC has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to a Hussein opposition group called the an initiative of the New Citizenship Project; the New Citizenship Project’s chairman is William Kristol including Elliott Abrams, Dick Cheney, Paula Dobriansky, Aaron Friedberg, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Iraqi National Congress, and to Iraq’s heir-apparent, Ahmed Chalabi, despite the fact that Chalabi and its president is Gary J. Schmitt.” Formed in 1997, with roots in the 1992 Pentagon, PNAC’s Ikle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John R. Bolton, was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years in prison on 31 counts of bank fraud. original 25 signatories were an eclectic mix of academics and conservative politicians, several of whom Vin Weber, and Paul Dean Wolfowitz. It should not be surprising, therefore, that while the group Chalabi and the INC have, over the years, gathered support for their cause by promising oil contracts have subsequently found positions in the presidential administration of George Walker Bush. PNAC devotes inordinate attention to Iraq, its most general focus has been on a need to “re-arm America.” to anyone that would help to put them in power in Iraq. Most recently, PNAC created a new group is noteworthy for its focus on Iraq, a preoccupation that began before Bush became president and The prospect of mining oil riches may explain part of the group’s focus on Iraq, but this motivation called the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. The Committee has set out to “educate” Americans predates the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In 1998, the group wrote letters to President has been buried under the rhetoric of national security and the need for strong national defense. via cable news connections about the need for war in Iraq. This group met recently with National Bill Clinton, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott (then Senate Majority Leader) and Newt Gingrich (then To justify a need to “rearm” the country, however, reasons must be found. In the more peaceable Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice regarding the ways and means of this education. The Project for the Speaker of the House of Representatives), demanding a harder line against Iraq. By then, the group world of the late 1990s, with no rival super-power in sight, Iraq and “ballistic missile defense” New American Century seeks to establish what they call ‘Pax Americana’ across the globe. Essentially, had grown in numbers, adding individuals such as former Reagan-era U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. against “rogue states” were the main games in town. The group’s links to advocacy for ballistic missile their goal is to transform America, the sole remaining superpower, into a planetary empire by force Kirkpatrick, and long-time Washington cold warrior Richard N. Perle. According to William Rivers defense came through Donald Rumsfeld, who in 1998 chaired a bi-partisan commission on the “US of arms. A report released by PNAC in September of 2000 entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses Pitt, “Two events brought PNAC into the mainstream of American government: the disputed election Ballistic Missile Threat” and Vin Weber, a registered lobbyist for Lockheed Martin and other Fortune codifies this plan, which requires a massive increase in defense spending and the fighting of several of George W. Bush and the attacks of September 11th. When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men 500 companies. According to a February 27, 2003 editorial by William Rivers Pitt, PNAC has been major theater wars in order to establish American dominance. The first has been achieved in Bush’s who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the agitating since its inception for a war with Iraq. PNAC was the driving force behind the drafting and new budget plan, which calls for the exact dollar amount to be spent on defense that was requested by Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, passage of the Iraqi Liberation Act, a bill that painted a veneer of legality over the ultimate designs PNAC in 2000. Arrangements are underway for the fighting of the wars.

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PEOPLE on Terrorism, which produced the Report of the National Commission on Terrorism in June 2000 in policy, has informed friendly Persian Gulf nations that the defeat of Iraq in the 3-year-old war credible NGOs.” Ralph Nader responds with “What they are condemning, with vague, ironic regulatory National Security Council [NSC] was “established by the National Security Act of 1947 also (PL 235 DOCUMENTS + DEALS Abrams, Elliott was appointed to the National Security Council by George Walker Bush. He served as for President William Jefferson Clinton. ¶ Prior to joining CSIS in 1988, Fred Ikle was Undersecretary with Iran would be ‘contrary to U.S. interests’ and has made several moves to prevent that result.”  nostrums proposed against dissenting citizen groups, is democracy itself.” - 61 Stat. 496; U.S.C. 402), amended by the National Security Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. Bush Doctrine: Released September 20, 2001; “Preemption, rather than reaction” summarizes the Assistant Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan. Abrams is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, of Defense for Policy in the Ronald Reagan administration and Director for the U.S. Arms Control 579; 50 U.S.C. 401 et seq.). Later in 1949, as part of the Reorganization Plan, the Council was placed Bush Doctrine which congealed in the wake of a conservative and national backlash against the weakening Project for the New American Century letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. ¶ He is associ- and Disarmament Agency (1973-1977). He also cochaired the bipartisan Commission on Integrated Scheunemann, Randy was Trent Lott’s National Security Aide and an advisor to Donald H. Rumsfeld on Center for Security Policy [CSP] was founded in 1988 and states that it operates as a non-profit, non- in the Executive Office of the President.” ¶ The National Security Council is the President’s principal of the United State’s power and security in the world. ¶ Also attributed as the “Wolfowitz doctrine”, and ated with the Committee on U.S. Interests in the Middle East. He has ties to the Hudson Institute and the Long-Term Strategy, which published Discriminate Deterrence in January 1988. In 1975 and 1987, Iraq. Scheunemann is president of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the partisan organization committed to the time-tested philosophy of promoting international peace forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security detailed in the National Security Strategy Document promulgated by the junior Bush’s administration, Center for Security Policy. ¶ Abrams was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1991, Abrams Ikle received the highest civilian award of the Department of Defense, the Distinguished Public Service Project for the New American Century. ¶ Scheunemann is the treasurer at the Project on Transitional through American strength. ¶ A very influential organization with the Center for Security Policy is advisors and cabinet officials. Since its inception under President Harry S. Truman, the function of it promotes use of unilateral preemptive force and persuasion rather than honest multi-lateral coop- was indicted by the Iran-Contra special prosecutor for giving false testimony before Congress in 1987 Medal; in 1988, he was awarded the Bronze Palm.  Democracies ¶ Randy Scheunemann founded Orion Strategies LLC in 2001 to provide strategic plan- the Center’s National Security Advisory Council, whose members hold senior positions with the Bush the Council has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies. The eration. ¶ There are numerous similarities between the Bush Doctrine and it’s predecessor, Rebuilding about his role in illicitly raising money for the Nicaraguan Contras. He pleaded guilty to two lesser of- ning, communications, policy, and government affairs consulting services to corporate, government, administration. ¶ Center for Security Policy has strong ties with the Republican party with many mem- Council also serves as the President’s principal arm for coordinating these policies among various America’s Defenses. The most notable being the exact dollar amount for increased military spending. fenses of withholding information to Congress in order to avoid a trial and a possible jail term. He was Jackson, Bruce Pitcairn is a former vice president in the weapons division of Lockheed Martin (1993- foundation and private clients. As President and Managing Partner, he and his team develop strategies, bers serving senior posts in the Reagan administration and Bush Jr. administrations. Donald Rumsfeld, government agencies. pardoned by President George H.W. Bush along with a number of other Iran-Contra defendants on 2002). ¶ He is the President of The Project on Transitional Democracies. He has served as the Chairman provide counsel and implement action plans specifically tailored to individual client needs.  current Secretary of Defense under Bush, is a recipient of the Center’s Keeper of the Flame Award. Defense Planning Guidance In 1992, then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and I. Christmas night 1992. ¶ After Reagan left office in 1989,Abrams , like a number of other prominent of the Project for the New American Century and as chair of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. He CSP is not shy in touting its strong ties with the U.S. Government New Citizenship Project (Inc.) [NCP] is closely affiliated with the Project for the New American Lewis Libby prepared a report outlining the role the U.S. should play in the 21st Century which was neo-conservatives, was not invited to serve in the Bush Sr. administration. Instead, he worked for a is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Schmitt, Gary J. is the current executive director of the Project for the New American Century, Secretary Century, one of the behind-the-scenes architects of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. ¶ called; Defense Planning Guidance. It suggested an aggressive, preemptive, and unilateral approach number of think tanks and eventually became head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center where he wrote London and on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Security Policy. ¶ He is the President of the U.S. of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, and on the board of directors of the U.S. Committee on Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] is a private organization headquartered in Funding sources appear to be exclusively from three far right-wing neo-conservative think tank that would “discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to widely on foreign-policy issues, including the Middle East, and the threats posed by U.S. secular society Committee on NATO, a non-profit bi-partisan organization formed to promote the expansion of the NATO, a non-profit bi-partisan organization formed to promote the expansion of theNATO alliance. Washington, D.C. According to its web site, it has been dedicated to providing world leaders with funders: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, Inc., Scaife Foundations. a larger regional or global role” and wanted to make sure that America would maintain dominance in to Jewish identity. He also remained an integral part of the tight-knit neo-conservative foreign policy NATO alliance. From 1979 to 1990, Bruce Jackson served in the United States Army as a Military Intel- ¶ Schmitt is also a Department of Defense consultant.  strategic insights on—and policy solutions to—current and emerging global issues. CSIS is led by the world “by force if necessary.” ¶ The report met with plenty of criticism and was quickly withdrawn community in Washington that revolved around one of his early mentors, Richard N. Perle and former ligence Officer. From 1986 to 1990, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in a variety of John J. Hamre, formerly deputy secretary of defense, who has been president and CEO since April NATO [The North Atlantic Treaty Organization] is an alliance of 19 countries from North American and and denounced by Bush Sr., but the ideas it contained did not die with it. The Defense Planning UN Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick at the American Enterprise Institute. ¶ Recently, National Security policy positions pertaining to nuclear forces, strategic defenses and arm control negotiations. ¶ Upon Wolfowitz, Paul Dean is the current Deputy Secretary of Defense (and assistant to Richard Bruce Dick 2000. ¶ CSIS is pre-dominated by members with strong ties to the government and private industry. Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of North Atlantic treaty signed April 4, 1949. Guidance 1992-1994 document is alleged to be the blueprint for the September 2000 Rebuilding Advisor Condoleezza Rice appointed Elliott Abrams as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Di- leaving the Department of Defense in 1990, Mr. Jackson joined Lehman Brothers, an investment bank Cheney, and is considered to be one of the most prominent and “hawkish” (neo-conservatives). He Sam Nunn, CSIS Chairman of the Board of Trustees, served as U.S. Senator from Georgia for 24 America’s Defenses. rector for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations at the National Security Council. in New York, where he was the chief strategist for the firm’s proprietary trade operations. is the principal author of the “Wolfowitz doctrine”, also known as the Bush Doctrine. ¶ He is a long years (1972-1996) and is currently on the boards of ChevronTexaco Corporation, The Coca-Cola Project on Transitional Democracies [PTD] (according to their web site): has been organized to time member of the Project for the New American Century think tank and was one of the signers of Company, Dell Computer Corporation, General Electric Company, Internet Security Systems, exploit the opportunities to accelerate democratic reform and integration which we believe will Iraq Contracts [See Kellogg, Brown, and Root] Bennett, William J. is co-director of Empower America and Empower.org. He was formerly Secretary of Kagan, Robert is a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century and was one of the signers the January 26, 1998 PNAC letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. He is believed to be Inc., and Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. He is also a senior partner in the law firm of King &Spald- exist in the broader Euro-Atlantic region over the next decade. The Project is a multi-year en- Education under Ronald Reagan and Director of National Drug Control Policy under George Herbert of the January 26, 1998, PNAC letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. He is reputed to a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and Center for Security Policy. His expertise is ing, where he focuses his practice on international and corporate matters. ¶ Anne Armstrong, deavor aimed at accelerating the pace of reform in Europe’s post-1989 democracies and advanc- Rebuilding America’s Defenses: In September 2000, the PNAC issued a 80-page report en- Walker Bush. ¶ Bennett is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. ¶ Kagan worked at the State Department Bureau of with the Middle East and Asia. ¶ Wolfowitz has ties to Northrop Grumman. He is also on the board CSIS Chairman of the Executive Committee, is former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain dur- ing the date for the integration of these democracies into the institutions of the Euro-Atlantic. titled Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces, And Resources For A New Century. The Century letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton.¶ Bennett is senior advisor and founder of Inter-American Affairs (85-88) and was the principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and is a former Dean at the Paul H. Nitze School of ing the Gerald R. Ford administration and was chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence report has been the subject of much analysis and criticism. On page 51 “Further, the process of Americans for Victory Over Terrorism and serves on the advisory council of Center for Security Policy. Shultz (84-85). Prior to that, he was foreign policy advisor to Jack Kemp (83). His name is associated Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Wolfowitz is currently listed as Advisory Board during the Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush administrations. She Weekly Standard, The is an American political magazine that is published 48 times per year. It made transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some cata- ¶ Bennett is the John M Olin distinguished fellow in Cultural Policy studies at the Heritage Foundation. with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ¶ Kagan, who has written for the New Republic, an instructor at the school. ¶ He is a veteran of both the Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker is former member of the board of directors of American Express Company, Boise Cascade, and its debut on September 17, 1995, and it is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (who also strophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” ¶ One year later, on September 11, 2001 Weekly Standard, and Washington Post, now lives in Brussels, Belgium, with his family. Bush Administrations. At the beginning of the Reagan Administration, he served as Director of Halliburton Company. She currently serves on the General Motors Corporate Advisory Council. owns FOX News) . It is viewed as a leading outlet of the influential neoconservative movement. Its the major news stations began referring to the WTC attacks as a new Pearl Harbor. Bush, George Walker became the 43rd and current President of the United States of America on Janu- Policy Planning for the Department of State and then as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian current editors are William Kristol and Fred Barnes. ¶ The Weekly Standard has long been a pas- ary 20, 2001. Immediately prior to attaining the office, he was Governor of the State of Texas. ¶ Bush Kristol, William is the editor of the “Weekly Standard”. Kristol was the former Chief of Staff to Vice and Pacific Affairs. In 1986, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia. Under Committee for the Liberation of Iraq [CLI] bills itself as a nongovernmental organization com- sionate advocate for Israel. Recently, it has become known for its ardent support for war on Iraq. Taliban-Afganistan Pipeline: Once Bush Jr. came into office, his administration began negotiations was the winner of one of the closest elections (see 2000 Presidential Election) in American history, President Dan Quayle (89-93) and to Secretary of Education William Bennett during the Ronald President George Herbert Walker Bush, Wolfowitz served as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. ¶ prised of a “distinguished group of Americans” who want to free Iraq from Saddam Hussein. In with the Taliban for a pipeline deal through Afghanistan. Their desire to obtain a deal led them to defeating Democratic Vice President Albert Gore, by only 5 electoral votes. His father, George H. W. Reagan administration. Kristol formerly led the Project for the Republican Future. He is on the board From 1973-1977, Wolfowitz held a variety of positions in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament a news release announcing its formation, the groups said it wants to “promote regional peace, EVENTS back off investigating Osama bin Laden or other Saudi royals financing al-Qaeda and to make other Bush, was the 41st President of the United States. His brother Jeb Bush is the current Governor of of the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research and his name is associated with the Middle East Agency including Special Assistant to the Director for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. From political freedom and international security through replacement of the Saddam Hussein regime 2000 Presidential Election was one of the closest elections in the history of the United States. The policy decisions that caused them to take their eye off the ball with regard to the threat from al-Qaeda. Florida . ¶ Bush began his career in the oil industry in 1975 when he formed the oil and gas exploration Forum. ¶ William Kristol is the founder of the Project for the New American Century and was one of 1977 to 1980, he was Director of Policy Planning for the Jimmy Carter State Department, Deputy with a democratic government that respects the rights of the Iraqi people and ceases to threaten results of the November 7 election were not known for more than a month after the election, because ¶ In the summer of 2001, the administration was becoming increasingly irritated with how the talks company Arbusto Energy and continued working in the energy industry until 1986. His forays into the the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. ¶ He Assistant Secretary of Defense. From 1982 through 1986, he was Assistant Secretary of State for East the community of nations.” It has close links to the Project for the New American Century and the the counting and recounting of Florida presidential ballots, which swung the election, extended for were going and, according to some sources, threatened the Taliban with carpets of gold (money from industry were disastrous, losing millions of dollars. ¶ Bush was involved in controversial stock trades is believed to be a member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq ¶ In November 2002, Kristol, Asian and Pacific Affairs. From 1986 to 1989 Wolfowitz was the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic American Enterprise Institute, important shapers of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. ¶ more than a month. The final (and disputed) official Florida count gave the victory to Bush by 537 a pipeline deal) or carpets of bombs (a war). ¶ It appears that some time in the summer, the pipeline while serving on the board of directors of Harken Energy Corp. in 1990. The sale of Harken stock as Chairman of the Bioethics Project of the New Citizenship Project, attended the Third Annual of Indonesia. During the Bush administration, Wolfowitz was Dick Cheney’s Under Secretary of Many CLI, PNAC and AEI members were previously involved with the Committee for Peace and Se- votes. ¶ During the recounting process, the Bush campaign hired George H. W. Bush’s former Sec- deal fell through. ¶ A Reuters reporter interviewed bin Laden in late June and reported that; “There helped pay off a loan for his purchase of a partial interest in the Texas Rangers. He served as manag- Siebel Scholars Conference which addressed stem cell research at Stanford University/Stanford En- Defense for Policy, the principal civilian official responsible for strategy, plans and policy. ¶In curity in the Gulf (CPSG), a hard-right group created in 1990 prior to Operation Desert Storm. retary of State James Baker to oversee the legal process, and the Gore campaign hired Bill Clinton’s is a major state of mobilization among the Osama bin Laden forces. It seems that there is a race of who ing general partner of the Rangers until he was elected Governor of Texas on November 8, 1994 over gineering at Palo Alto, CA. ¶ Kristol also has ties to Fox News, and appears on the station regularly. 1992, Wolfowitz (along with then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and I. Lewis Libby) prepared a former Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Numerous local court rulings went both ways, some will strike first. Will it be the United States or Osama bin Laden?” ¶ On the day before 9-11, a CIA incumbent Ann Richards. When the team was sold in 1998, Bush had earned $15,000,000. ¶ He report outlining the role the U.S. should play in the 21st Century which was called; “Defense Plan- Council on Foreign Relations [CFR] Their stated mission is: “The Council on Foreign Relations ordering recounts because the vote was so close and others declaring that a selective manual recount plan to attack al-Qaeda in Afghanistan — with support for the Northern Alliance, including a U.S. went on to become the first Texas governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms. His tenure Lehrman, Lewis E. was President of Rite Aid for nine years (1968-1977) after serving in the United ning Guidance”. ¶ Wolfowitz, a “hawkish” conservative military analyst under Ronald Reagan, had in is dedicated to increasing America’s understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. in a few heavily-Democratic counties would be unfair. Eventually, the Gore campaign appealed to the military invasion of Afghanistan — was put on Bush’s desk, awaiting his approval and signature when in office featured a reputation for bipartisan leadership, and some controversy, even international States Army. He resigned as President in 1977 to dedicate his time to public policy. In 1982, Leh- the 1990s, during the Clinton presidency formulated a new foreign policy with regard to Iraq and foreign policy. The Council accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive debates and Florida Supreme Court whose liberal judges ordered that the recounting process proceed. The Bush he returned from Florida. controversy. During Bush’s tenure, Texas saw a sharp rise in capital punishment. ¶ Once Bush Jr. rman ran for Governor of New York. Nominated by both the Conservative and Republican parties other “potential aggressor states”, dismissing “containment” in favor of “preemption”; strike first discussions, clarifying world issues, and publishing Foreign Affairs.” ¶ There is some published campaign subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States which took up the case came into office, his administration began negotiations with the Taliban for a pipeline deal through of New York, Lehrman launched a campaign to rebuild New York. Following a narrow loss to Mario to eliminate threats. Clinton, along with Bush Senior, Colin L. Powell, and other former Bush opinion, largely promoted by James W. Wardner, who “exposes the evil forces behind the “New Bush v. Gore on December 1. On December 4, the court nullified the decision of the Florida Supreme STATEMENT + INFORMATION Afghanistan. (See Taliban-Afganistan Pipeline) ¶ Although Bush has never been a direct member of Cuomo, President Reagan in August of 1983 asked Lehrman to become Chairman of Citizens for administration officials, dismissed calls for “preemption” in favor of continued “containment.” World Order” and reveals the unholy alliances that are bringing about The Planned Destruc- Court saying that the court’s decision to bypass state election laws, which stated that results had to be When I first heard about the Project for the New American Century I didn’t want to believe what I was PNAC he has several close ties to the organization. His Brother Jeb Bush has been involved heavily America. He was the annual honoree in 1983 of the Archdiocese of New York for his early work This was the policy of George Walker Bush as well for his first several months in office. Many saw tion of America.” which ties the CFR to the Trilateral Commission, the Illuminati, the Skull and certified by a certain date, was dubious at best saying that there was “considerable uncertainty” as to the hearing. It’s frightening to think that just one year before 9-11, that someone actually wrote down and over the years; Paul Wolfowitz co-authored the Bush Doctrine which borrows many ideas directly from in developing the Inner City Scholarship Fund. He has been a trustee of the American Enterprise Wolfowitz’s plan as a “blueprint for US hegemony” and his “preemption” policy remained contained Bones Society, and the Bilderberg. ¶ Indeed the CFR provided a background experience for a precise grounds for their ruling. ¶ Early in the afternoon of December 12, the Republican-dominated published their desire for a “new Pearl Harbor”. What madmen say these things? It wasn’t something I PNAC’s Rebuilding America’s Defenses; several staff members of the Bush Administration are or have Institute, the Morgan Library, the Manhattan Institute and the Heritage Foundation. In April of until the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 revived hawkish advocacy for defending by attacking. great many well known individuals who have served the executive branch of the U.S. government. Florida House of Representatives voted nearly on party lines to certify the state’s electors for Bush. was prepared to accept. After some initial research, I was given no choice but to accept. That document been involved with PNAC in the past. 1987, Lehrman joined Morgan Stanley & Company, investment bankers, as a Senior Advisor and a Later that afternoon, the Florida Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings authorizing recounts is still available — on their web site! They really don’t make much of an attempt to cover up who they are, Director of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. In 1988, he became a Managing Director of the firm Woolsey Jr., R. James is believed to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also reputed FOX News Channel is a 24-hour news channel launched in 1996 on United States cable and satellite in several south Florida counties. ¶ All the lower court rulings became moot when around 10pm on what they are up to, or what they want — and when I say “they”, I mean “They”. There are a group of Bush, John Ellis “Jeb” is the brother of President George Walker Bush and the son of former President and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. Subsequently, he formed Ten to have been a member of Skull & Bones while he was at Yale (Yale Law School ‘68). ¶ Woolsey is one networks as well as in syndication. It is available to 80 million subscribers in the U.S. and broadcasts December 12, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 ideologically-split decision in favor of men and women who meet behind closed doors. They make insider deals. They help out their friends George Herbert Walker Bush. Jeb Bush was elected as Florida’s Republican Governor in Novem- Squared Investment Fund. He is today Chairman of L.E. Lehrman & Co., a private investment firm. of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century letter sent to President primarily out of its studios in New York City. ¶ Launched on October 7, 1996 to 17 million cable Bush, effectively ending the election. The court’s majority cited differing vote-counting standards (and their multimillion dollar corporations). They have a plan. They have a nice little clubhouse set up ber 1998 and was re-elected November 2002 (term expires January 2007). ¶ His role in the 2000 William Jefferson Clinton. He was also one of the signers of another PNAC document, Statement on subscribers, the nascent network quickly rose to prominence in the late 1990s as it started taking from county to county and the lack of a single judicial officer to oversee the recount, both of which, — it’s called PNAC, and I have this sinking feeling that the rest of the world is not invited. Presidential Election is still under question by many Americans. ¶ Jeb Bush was one of the signers Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter” is currently Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Post-War Iraq, on March 19, 2003. ¶ Woolsey was a Commissioner on the National Commission market share away from the Cable News Network (CNN). It has since surpassed CNN to become the it ruled, violated the equal-protection clause of the United States Constitution. ¶ Texas Governor of the Project for the New American Century documents Statement of Principles (June 3, 1997). Cheney. ¶ Suspected of leaking Valerie Plame’s status as a covert CIA operative, a crime punishable by on Terrorism which delivered the Report of the National Commission on Terrorism to President number one news channel in the United States. FOX News Channel asserts that it is less biased and George W. Bush became President-elect and began forming his transition committee. ¶ Vice President Information for this map was compiled between September 6 and October 11, 2003. The majority of up to 10 years in jail. ¶ Libby is believed to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. ¶ In 1992, Clinton in June 2000. At the time, he was a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner “with a more factual than other American networks, using promotional statements such as “fair and balanced”, Al Gore came in second even though he received a larger number of popular votes. This was at least research was done using the internet, as there have not been more than a handful of articles published Cheney, Richard Bruce “Dick” is currently Vice President of the United States. He is a former Secretary Libby (along with then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz) prepared a report outlining practice in the fields of civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and corporate transactions.” “we report, you decide”. This positioning attracts conservatives who believe that other news channels the fourth time that a candidate who did not receive a plurality of the popular vote received a majority about the Project for the New American Century. ¶ Most of the descriptions were taken (and edited of Defense and served as White House Chief of Staff under Gerald R. Ford. From 1978 to 1989, he the role the U.S. should play in the 21st Century which was called; Defense Planning Guidance. ¶ Prior to returning to the Shea & Gardner, Woolsey had not only served as Director of Central are dominated by a liberal bias. Many liberals and rival media organizations accuse FOX News of hav- of the electoral committee vote, the first time probably being in the 1824 elections although popular down) from disinfopedia.org and wikipedia.org. I would highly suggest you keep an eye on these served as a U.S. Representative from Wyoming. ¶ A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Intelligence, but also had served as Ambassador to the Negotiations on CFE, Under Secretary of the ing a conservative bias and of pushing agendas rather than reporting the news in a neutral manner. vote records do not exist for earlier elections. Until this election, the 1876 elections had been the most two sites, as they are continually updated. Other descriptions were pieced together using individual Cheney is the former CEO of Halliburton Company, which greatly benefits from contracts with the Perle, Richard N. is a man of many hats: Pentagon policy adviser, former Likud policy adviser, media Navy, and General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. ¶ Woolsey is con- contentious in U.S. history. organization’s web sites. ¶ The validity of the claims made on this map have been cross-checked as U.S. government, especially in the war with Iraq. Cheney has ties to the Carlyle Group, is a former manager, international investor, oped writer, talk show guest, think tank expert and, most of all, a nected with the Scowcroft Commission and the Rumsfeld Commission. He is currently chairman of Halliburton Company was founded in 1919 and is “one of the world’s largest providers of products and much as possible, although I suggest you further research any of the topics that interest you. ¶ People, Senior Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, served on the Advisory Board of the Jewish In- man who ardently wants Saddam Hussein toppled. Known in Washington circles as The Prince of Darkness, Freedom House, reputed to be a front for the Council on Foreign Relations, is on the board of the services to the oil and gas industries.” ¶ Even without the Cheney conflicts of interest, serious doubts September 11 , 2001 [9-11]: hijacked planes were flown into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center; Organizations, Events, Funding, Documents & Deals that were found to have less than 1 connection stitute for National Security Affairs, and has been linked to the Project for the New American Century. Perle is associated with the American Enterprise Institute and the Project for the New American Century, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a member of the Committee for the Liberation remain about whether a company with a record like Halliburton’s should even be eligible to receive another hijacked plane was diverted into a field in Pennsylvania. The collapse of the Trade Center’s were edited out of the poster for clarity’s sake. ¶ Please check www.soonafter.com/pnac.htm for a list ¶ He is the believed to be a member of the U.S. Committee on NATO, a non-profit bi-partisan both of which have been prominent behind-the-scenes architects of the Bush administration’s foreign of Iraq, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on the board of the Wash- government contracts in the first place. This, after all, is a company that has been accused of cost twin towers killed about 3000 people that day, and released asbestos and other toxic waste into the air. of useful web sites and a (more) complete list of PNAC members. organization formed to promote the expansion of the NATO alliance. ¶ Mr. Cheney is still drawing policy, in particular its push for war with Iraq. He is closely allied with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul ington Institute for Near East Policy, a senior advisor for Americans for Victory Over Terrorism, overruns, tax avoidance, and cooking the books and has a history of doing business in countries like ¶ The news sources in America were quick to liken the attacks that morning to Pearl Harbor. One year a $1,000,000 per year paycheck from Halliburton while serving as the Vice President. He evidently Wolfowitz, another Iraq hawk. Perle is also a vocal supporter of Israel and a critic of Saudi Arabia. Perle and a principal in Paladin Capital Group. He is Vice President of Booz Allen & Hamilton, the lead Iraq, Iran and Libya. Tax Havens: Under Cheney’s tenure, the number of Halliburton subsidiaries in earlier, PNAC called for a new Pearl Harbor in Rebuilding America’s Defenses. ¶ Preemption provides sees no conflict of interest between taking this paycheck, and participating in White House deci- is on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, and is a former chairman contractor for the Total Information Awareness program. ¶ Woolsey is Vice Chairman of the Advisory offshore tax havens increased from 9 to 44. Meanwhile, Halliburton went from paying $302 million an avenue to achieve U.S. objectives by taking actions without reasonable cause. The first public global sions that have allocated billions of dollars of bids to Halliburton that have not gone to open tender. of the Defense Policy Board, a Defense Department advisory group composed primarily of former Board of Global Options, Inc./Global Options, Inc. Interestingly, he also finds time to sit on the in company taxes in 1998 to getting an $85 million tax refund in 1999. ¶ Confidential U.N. docu- exercise of this doctrine was presented in the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, for which a number of justi- “Further, the process of transformation,even if it government officials, retired military officers, and academics. ¶ In 1981 he was appointed Assistant Board of the North American Industrial Hemp Council/North American Industrial Hemp Council. ments show that Halliburton’s affiliates have had broad, and sometimes controversial, dealings with fications were presented to the Congress, the United Nations, and the people of the world; and none Dobriansky, Dr. Paula J. was appointed as Under Secretary, Global Affairs on May 1, 2001, by Presi- Secretary of Defense in the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan. During the presidential the Iraqi regime. The firms traded with Baghdad for more than a year under Cheney, signing nearly of those justifications were based in fact, a fact itself which has been subsequently well documented. ¶ dent George Walker Bush. She was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New campaign of George W. Bush, Perle served as a foreign policy advisor. ¶ He is believed to be a member Zoellick, Robert Bruce appointed United States Trade Representative, assumed office on February $30 million in contracts before he sold Halliburton’s 49 percent stake in Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co. Preemption is ‘provocation’; it is not ‘prevention’. The Iraq invasion of 2003 intended to prevent, brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long American Century letter to President William Jefferson Clinton. Previously, Dr. Dobriansky served of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq ¶ Perle has close business ties with Conrad Black, chairman 7, 2001. He is a member of President George Walker Bush’s Cabinet, with the rank of Ambassador. in December 1999 and its 51 percent interest in Dresser Rand to Ingersoll-Rand in February 2000, but actually provoked and promoted, international terrorism and weapons proliferation, and a general as Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations, of Hollinger International Inc., which owns more than 400 daily and weekly newspapers in Canada, Zoellick is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the Trilateral Commission, and was according to U.N. records. disgust and distrust of the U.S. Those things actually prevented by the Iraqi invasion can be listed as “responsible for managing the Council’s office and operations in DC and for leading Council meet- the United States, Britain, Israel and Australia. Hollinger papers include London’s Daily Telegraph, one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century letter to President peace, cooperation, trust, honor, and the like. ¶ Coincidentally: September 11, 1941: ground was one, absent some catastrophic & catalyzing event ings, study groups, and seminars. She was also the Council’s first George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for the Chicago Sun-Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Jerusalem Post. Perle uses these papers William Jefferson Clinton. ¶ During President George Herbert Walker Bush’s Administration, Zoel- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [JINSA] has a Two-Fold Mandate: 1. To educate the broken on the Pentagon site, laying the ground for sixty years of world domination and Empire. Russian and Eurasian Studies.” She is also a member of the Trilateral Commission. ¶ Dobriansky’s and others to trumpet his anti-Saddam sentiments and to tangle with political figures, such as British lick served with Secretary of State James Addison Baker III as Under Secretary of State for Economic American public about the importance of an effective U.S. defense capability so that our vital in- government appointments include Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Minister Clare Short, who opposes the Perle line on Iraq. Black, a Canadian, recently joined fellow and Agricultural Affairs, as well as Counselor to the Department (Under Secretary rank). In August terests as Americans can be safeguarded; and 2. To inform the American defense and foreign affairs FUNDING – like a new Pearl Harbor.” Information Agency (1990-1993), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Hu- media kingpin Rupert Murdoch in defending British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision to stick 1992, Ambassador Zoellick was appointed White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant to the community about the important role Israel can and does play in bolstering democratic interests The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, according to The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation —Page 51 of Rebuilding America’s Defenses; September 2000. manitarian Affairs (1987-1990); Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen with Bush’s war aims, despite overwhelming domestic opposition. ¶ Whether or not Perle speaks for President. ¶ Zoellick has served as the John M. Olin Professor of National Security at the U.S. Naval in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. ¶ Support increased defense spending, cooperation 1998 Annual Report, they were giving away more than $30 million per year. ¶ The overall objec- Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE); Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the Bush, the president’s recent reasoning on Iraq follows a pattern found in Perle’s writings, particularly Academy (1997-1998), Research Scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs with Israel, and proliferation of Ballistic Missile Technology and Weapons of Mass Destruction. tive of the Bradley Foundation is to return the U.S.—and the world—to the days before governments 1985 UN Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya; and Director of European and Soviet in a lengthy piece for Israel Insider, which uses numerous non-sequiters in its emotionally-charged at the John F. Kennedy of Government at Harvard University, and Senior International Advisor to began to regulate Big Business, before corporations were forced to make concessions to an orga- Affairs at the National Security Council (1983-1984), the White House.” She also was Foreign Policy connection of Saddam to terrorist activity.  Goldman Sach’s. ¶ He also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public Kellogg, Brown & Root [KBR] The defense department contract awarded to the Halliburton subsidiary, nized labor force. In other words, laissez-faire capitalism: capitalism with the gloves completely off. Coordinator for Bob Dole’s 1996 Campaign. ¶ For three years, she hosted Freedom’s Challenge organizations: Alliance Capital, Said Holdings, and the Precursor Group; a member of the advisory KBR, to control oil fires if Saddam Hussein sets the well heads alight, will put the company in an and co-hosted Worldwise, the international affairs programs on National Empowerment Television. Rumsfeld, Donald Henry is the current Secretary of Defense in the US. Rumsfeld has strong ties to boards of Enron and Viventures, a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute’s Strategy Group, excellent position to bid for huge contracts when Iraq’s oil industry is rehabilitated. KBR has already The John M. Olin Foundation, based in New York, was established in 1953 by John Merrill Olin 2 3 the Intelligence community, as well as to the Atlantic Institute. He is a financial supporter for the Council on Foreign Relations, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the World Wild- benefited considerably from the “war on terror”. It has so far been awarded contracts worth nearly (1892-1982), inventor, industrialist, conservationist, and philanthropist. “Olin was committed to Donnelly, Thomas is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Center for Security Policy. Rumsfeld was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the life Advisory Council; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen’s Defense Policy Board. $33m to build the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for al-Qaida suspects. the preservation of the principles of political and economic liberty as they have been expressed in Donnelly is a writer and analyst of military affairs and defense, national security and foreign policy. New American Century letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. ¶ The second in charge American thought, institutions and practice.” ¶ The Foundation is financed by the Olin Chemical People He is the author of AEI’s National Security Outlook. ¶ Donnelly is a Director at the Lockheed Martin at the Defense Department is Paul Wolfowitz. ¶ Secretary Rumsfeld held a variety of positions in ORGANIZATIONS L.E. Lehrman & Co (aka Gerson Lehrman Group, Lehrman Brothers) is an independent primary and Munitions fortune with assets estimated at $90 million, $3 million of which goes to conserva- Corporation on strategic communications and initiatives (since 2002). ¶ He was Deputy Executive the Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon Administrations. From 1974 until 1977, he served un- The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research [AEI] is a think tank founded in 1943 whose research firm providing the investment community with customized tools and services to accurately tive advocacy groups. The Foundation “supported right-wing causes for many years but became Organizations Direct Connection to PNAC Director of the Project for the New American Century (1999-2002); Director of the Policy Group, der President Ford as the youngest Secretary of Defense in the country’s history, Chief of Staff of stated mission is to support the “foundations of freedom - limited government, private enterprise, vital analyze products, markets and industries. Gerson Lehrman Group provides clients with knowledge more focused on grant making after William E. Simon took over as president in 1977.” Simon, who Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services), U.S. House of Repre- the White House and Chairman of the transition to the Presidency of Gerald Ford. From 1969 to cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense.” It has emerged as and insight through The Councils, a proprietary global network of over 40,000 industry professionals had been chosen to lead the Foundation by Olin, was followed by Michael Joyce, who left Olin in Events sentatives (1996-1999); and a professional staff member, Committee on National Security, U.S. 1974, he served President Nixon as U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Director of the Economic Stabili- one of the leading architects of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. AEI rents office space to the and thought leaders in multiple industries. 1985 to lead the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. He has since returned to be Olin’s president. House of Representatives (1995). ¶ Donnelly was the principal author of Rebuilding America’s De- Project for the New American Century Bush 1 4 zation Program and Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. He was elected to the U.S. , one of the leading voices that pushed the administration’s Funding fenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century published by PNAC in September 2000. House of Representatives from Illinois in 1962, at the age of 30, and was re-elected in 1964, 1966 plan for “regime change” through war in Iraq. AEI reps have also aggressively denied that the war has Lockheed Martin Corporation formed in March 1995 with the merger of two of the world’s premier The Scaife Foundations are financed by the Mellon industrial, oil, and banking fortune. Gulf Oil Cor- and 1968. Secretary Rumsfeld was a naval aviator from 1954 to 1957. He is a graduate of Princeton anything to do with oil. ¶ In June 2003, AEI and another right-wing group, the Federalist Society technology companies, Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation. Nearly 80% of poration was at one time its single largest stock. ¶ The Foundation commenced funding conservative Documents & Deals Ikle, Fred Charles is a Distinguished Scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. University. ¶ In 1983, He met Saddam (in Iraq) and the two discussed “topics of mutual interest,” for Law and Public Policy Studies, launched a new web site NGOWatch.org/NGOwatch.org to expose Lockheed Martin’s customer base is with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. federal govern- “causes” in 1973 when Richard Mellon Scaife became the foundation’s chairman. During the 1960s, Ikle’s expertise is in defense and foreign policy; nuclear strategy; Korea; and the emerging interna- according to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry. “[Saddam] made it clear that Iraq was not interested in mak- the funding, operations and agendas of international NGOs, and particularly their alleged efforts to ment agencies. “In fact, Lockheed Martin is the largest provider of IT services, systems integration, and Richard inherited an estimated $200 million from his mother, Sarah. His net personal worth was 5+ tional order. He is member of the Council on Foreign Relations and his name has been linked with the ing mischief in the world,” Rumsfeld later told The New York Times. “It struck us as useful to have constrain US freedom of action in international affairs and influence the behavior of corporations training to the U.S. Government. The remaining portion of Lockheed Martin’s business is comprised estimated at $800 million by Forbes magazine, which would make Richard the 38th richest person in Items are placed according to number of connections: from 1 - 5+ Hoover Institute. Ikle was one of the signers of the Project for the New American Century documents a relationship, given that we were interested in solving the Mideast problems.” ¶ Just 12 days after abroad. AEI states that “The extraordinary growth of advocacy NGOs in liberal democracies has the of international government and some commercial sales of products, services and platforms. ¶ Thomas the United States. Richard controls the Scaife, Carthage, and Alleghany foundations. In 1993 alone, MAP KEY Line color is determined by the furthest ring it touches. Statement of Principles (June 3, 1997). ¶ Ikle served as a Commissioner on the National Commission the meeting, on January 1, 1984, The Washington Post reported that the United States “in a shift potential to undermine the sovereignty of constitutional democracies, as well as the effectiveness of Donnelly is currently a director at Lockheed Martin; Bruce Jackson was Vice President (1993-2002). the Scaife and Carthage foundations donated more than $17.6 million to conservative think tanks. FEAR PNAC